Got my butt kicked and QUICK TOO

[DockShootinJack]

So I went to the job site before daylight today. Took a rake, flashlight and a gallon of stale gas. What could go wrong? The plan was to use the rake to pull back the wood mulch so I could find the entrance. Then, simply pour the gas down the hole and bam, no more yellow jackets.

I had marked the general area with a long 1x2 yesterday so I would know where to start. I was holding the flashlight in my mouth while I gingerly pulled back the mulch. I had a 2' circle raked back and didn't see any hole so I moved in for a closer look. Again, what could go wrong. The next swipe with the rake uncovered a mound of yellow jackets the size of a saucer and probably an inch thick. They hadn't built their tunnel yet and were piled up to stay warm, I think. They must have known death was right around the corner because they started to "come to the light". And I mean fast! The manly exclamation of surprise (not a scream like a little girl) caused the flashlight to fall out of my mouth and shining in the wrong direction. I didn't dare run, it was dark, dark, dark, and I had ladders, patio furniture and numerous bushes and trees around me and couldn't see a thing. Some how with all my whooping, dancing, flailing and swatting I didn't get stung. When things settled down I was able to retrieve my flashlight and hit the mound with bee killer. Man, what a way to start the work day.

Got your heart pumping way better than a pot of coffee.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Good news is my doctor took care of it and EPI pins are enroute. BAD NEWS is my wife and I are now very sick with COVID breakthrough infections...

[DockShootinJack]

Good news is my doctor took care of it and EPI pins are enroute. BAD NEWS is my wife and I are now very sick with COVID breakthrough infections...

You can't catch a break. Take care of yourself and wife. Hopefully your symptoms will be mild

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Thanks Jack. Really disappointed because we have been ULTRA careful, mask always, no visitors, social distance, sanitize etc. I was to have a total knee replacement Sept 15th and now that cannot happen either. God has all this under control for us and we just leave it in the hands of the Almighty.

[BobC]

Jeez, BEC - what a double whammy. Please take care and hopefully you will both recover quickly.
Bob

[Redge]

I am very thankful your okay! Glad someone could call 911!
We have yellow jackets here, bald faced hornets, red wasps!
Those yellow jackets are just plain mean.


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[DockShootinJack]

The worst I had been gotten was by wasps in a electrical panel. This house was way out in the woods. When I took the dead front off the main panel outside. It felt like hot sparks landing on my hands. I thought the panel was shorting out. Then the bulk of them mad critters were on me then. Darn things even crawled down in my ears. I took off running through the woods. The dead front was in my hand when I took off running. We never saw it again. It went flying through the air when I was running and swatting wasp.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Thanks Redge, now I am really ill with COVID (breakthrough).

[Opie1]

This Auvi-Q is much cheaper than and Epipen and your insurance may cover it. Mine cost $5 from my allergy doctor. Might want to look into this.


AUVI-Q(R) (epinephrine injection, USP) for Anaphylaxis

[Tturk]

I had a battle with insurance over the epipen. Found out I was allergic when I was on top of the vacuum station at a local car wash trying to clear out a clogged PVC pipe up there and ended up grabbing ahold of some hornets trying to build a nest. Before I realized what had happened I had been stung several times. Fell off the ladder trying to get down from up there. I think there was about 25+ stings. Boss drove me to urgent care. Then urgent care called for an ambulance. I had not experienced any difficulties breathing but the swelling was getting worse. I remember the skin stretching. Because my breathing was okay and I never lost consciousness or low blood pressure, I was not prescribed and epipen. Even to this day I don’t have one because my insurance says I don’t have a risk of anaphylaxis. Always afraid when I see a hornet near me.


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